this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2026
52 points (100.0% liked)

Ukraine

12559 readers
566 users here now

News related to Ukraine

Matrix Space


Community Rules

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Sympathy for enemy combatants is prohibited.

🌻🀒No content depicting extreme violence or gore.

πŸ’₯Posts containing combat footage should include [Combat] in title

🚷[Combat] videos containing footage of a visible human must be flagged NSFW

No AI slop

❗ Server Rules

  1. Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.)
  2. No racism or other discrimination
  3. No Nazis, QAnon or similar
  4. No porn
  5. No ads or spam (includes charities)
  6. No content against Finnish law

πŸ’³ Defense Aid πŸ’₯


πŸ’³ Humanitarian Aid βš•οΈβ›‘οΈ


πŸͺ– Volunteer with the International Legionnaires


See also:

!nafo@lemm.ee

!combatvideos@SJW


founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
top 12 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Darnton@piefed.zip 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When WWI tactics suddenly becomes state-of-the-art warfare again. That is seriously impressive though.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sure that guy needed a lot of practice to be able to do that. And of course they only show the hits, not the misses. Sterling work, though.

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

They probably have to use several clips each to damage the drown enough to drop.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

That middle finger made me giggle. Good job!

[–] MercuryGenisus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Next were going to see zeppelins being used as sniper nests. Crazy lol

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Nahh, they are very big and not fast enough, what makes them an easy target.

[–] clucose@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] clucose@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Shooting out of an airplane? Instead of using mthe mounted guns, wtf?

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That's a Yak-52 trainer. It doesn't have mounted guns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-52

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago

Handguns are more lightweight and maneuverable. And are totally OK for small drones. Machine guns are needed for only big ones.

[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That guy is like Robin Hood level of skil.